Entries from October 2009

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Good vs. Evil (ADLT 623 – Reflection #5)

Good vs. Evil / Culture   ( Happy Halloween)
Chapters 7, 8 and 9 of the Shein text were a lot to digest, but chewing on them was interesting, especially chapter 9 and the discussion of human nature and culture. Are we intrinsically evil or good? I’d like to think we are basically good, but by and [...]

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Culture and Space / Ownership (ADLT 623 – Reflection #4)

Mine, yours, ours, theirs…space, ownership and territory, as Schein points out, are deeply intertwined into culture.  My own work place is steeped with artifacts and even some underlying assumptions in its culture with regard to space and ownership.  It will be interesting to see how our semester project develops and how I will need to [...]